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3XN is celebrating the completion of construction for the record-setting mass timber roof covering the soon-to-open Sydney Fish Market as it becomes the largest glulam roof structure in the southern hemisphere. It shelters the future 700,000-square-foot building and supports 407 individual cassettes shrouded with built-in PV panels.
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